History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 6

by William Francis Patrick Napier

No. VII.

No. 1.—Force of the Anglo-Portuguese army under the marquis of Wellington’s command. Extracted from the original morning state for the 24th of July, 1813.

	Officers,			Total.
	Sergeants, &c.		Rank and file.	Men.	Horses.
British and German cavalry	}	916	5,894	6,750	5,834
Present under arms	}
Ditto infantry		4,665	29,926	34,581	”
Portuguese cavalry		251	1,241	1,492	1,178
Ditto infantry		2,594	20,565	23,459	”
Grand Total, exclusive of	}	8,726	57,566	66,282	7,012	{Infantry
sick and absent on command	}					{and cavalry.
The artillerymen, &c. were about 4,000.

No. 2.—Anglo-Portuguese force. Extracted from the original morning state, 15th of October, 1813.

		Officers,
		Sergeants,&c.	Rank and file.	Total.
British and German cavalry and infantry		5,859	37,250	43,109
Portuguese ditto		4,253	21,274	25,527
Grand Total, exclusive of sick,	}	10,112	58,524	68,636
absent on command. &c. &c.	}
The artillerymen and drivers about				4,000
			Total	72,636

No. 3.—Anglo-Portuguese force, from the original morning state, 9th November, 1813.

		Officers,
		Sergeants,&c.	Rank and file.	Total.
British and German cavalry and infantry		5,356	39,687	45,043
Portuguese ditto		2,990	22,237	25,227
Grand Total, exclusive of sick,	}	8,346	61,924	70,270
absent on command. &c.	}
The artillerymen &c. &c. about				4,000
			Total	74,270

No. 4.—Sir Rowland Hill’s force at the battle of St. Pierre. Extracted from the original morning state, 13th December, 1813.

		Officers,
		Sergeants, &c.	Rank and file.	Total.
Second division	{British	802	5,371	6,173
	{Portuguese	277	2,331	2,608
Lecor’s Portuguese division		507	4,163	4,670
Total under arms, exclusive of artillerymen		1,586	11,865	13,451

No. 5.—Anglo-Portuguese force. Extracted from the original morning state, 13th February, 1814.

	Officers,
	Sergeants, &c.	Rank and file.	Total.	Cavalry.
British and German cavalry	1,093	7,315	8,408}	9,898
Portuguese cavalry	280	1,210	1,490}
				Infantry.
British and German infantry	4,853	29,714	34,567}	56,306
Portuguese infantry	2,828	18,911	21,739}
General Total, present under arms				66,204
Artillerymen, &c. about				4,000

No. 6.—Anglo-Portuguese force. Extracted from the original morning state, 10th of April, 1814.

	Officers,
	Sergeants, &c.	Rank and file.	Total.
British and German cavalry	1,159	7,640	8,799}	9,987
Portuguese cavalry	230	958	1,188}
British and German infantry	4,946	29,999	34,945}	54,550
Portuguese infantry	2,622	16,983	19,605}
General Total, present under arms				64,537
The artillerymen, &c. about				4,000

No. 7.—Actual strength of the infantry divisions engaged in the battle of Toulouse. Extracted from the original morning state, 10th April, 1814.

		Officers,		Rank
Infantry, present under arms.		Sergeants, &c.		and file.	Total.
Second division,	British	715		4,123}	6,940
Ditto	Portuguese	235		1,867}		Grand Total
Third division,	British	529		2,741 }	4,679	infantry,
Ditto	Portuguese	226		1,183 }		officers and
Fourth division,	British	531		3,028}	5,383	soldiers,
Ditto	Portuguese	239		1,585}		present
Sixth division,	British	558		3,233 }	5,681	under arms.
Ditto	Portuguese	246		1,644 }
Light division,	British	378		2,469}	4,318	30,963
Ditto	Portuguese	231		1,240}
Lecor’s Portuguese division		455		3,507	3,962
		———		————
		4,343		26,620
		———		————

Note.—There is no separate state for the cavalry on the 10th of April, but on the 15th of May, 1814, they stood as follows.

	Officers,		Rank
Cavalry, present under arms.	Sergeants, &c.		and file.
Bock’s brigade of Germans	112		694	Total cavalry,
Ponsonby’s brigade of British	188		1,921	present
Fane’s brigade of British	240		1,506	under arms.
Vivian’s brigade of British	128		960
Lord Edw. Somerset’s brigade of British	214		1,691	6,954
	——		———
	882		6,072
	——		———
Total of Anglo-Portuguese cavalry and infantry, present under arms				37,917
Add the Spaniards under Freyre and Morillo, together said to be				14,000
				———
				51,917
Artillerymen, &c.				1,500
				———
	General Total			53,417
				———

Note.—My authority for the number of guns employed during this campaign are copies of the returns given to me by sir Alexander Dickson who commanded that arm. The number of artillerymen is not borne on the morning states, but in the original weekly state of the 15th of May, 1814, I find the artillerymen, engineers, drivers, and waggon-train, amounted to four thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, with five thousand and thirty horses and mules. This may be taken as the average strength during the campaign, but more than half were with sir John Hope and some with lord Dalhousie. Wherefore, the number at the battle of Toulouse could not have exceeded fifteen hundred, making a total of all ranks and arms of fifty-three thousand combatants.

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